Item 4th. I give my brother William Warren plantation whereon I nowlive and all the money that he now owes me and a negro man namedPomp and a negro girl named Rilar that now is with my Mother.And here are the appraised values assigned to those two slaves in inventory of Jeremiah's estate and the note executed by William as listed in the account of his money and notes filed with the Probate Court.

Received of John GrayBill and Jesse G Butts Exrs of the last will & testament of Jeremiah Warren late of Hancock County dec'd two Negroes Pomp a man and Rilah a woman they being the negroes bequeathed by said dec'd in his said last will to me & I do bind myself my heirs & assigns to forever acquit the said John & Jesse of any claim that may be raised or attempted to be raised to said negroes. Also one note made the second of February 1829 due the fourth of February 1830 it being also given to me by said Will this 11th March 1833. William Warren

In the 1840 Georgia Property Tax Digest, William Warren's listed property included 25 enslaved persons but it's impossible to tell if Pomp and Rilah were among them.

The 1850 U.S. Census Slave Schedule listed 59 men, women and children as the human property of William Warren, but again none of their names were recorded.

However William Warren's will, admitted to probate on January 9, 1860, mentions four men including Pompey in a bequest for the benefit of his niece Delilah (Warren) Breedlove (c1813-1860)* and her children along with a 500-acre plantation given by Jeremiah Warren for their "sole and separate use."

William only named a few of his slaves in his will and Rilah wasn't one of them. I spent several hours today looking through the pages of the Probate Court records for the inventory of his estate but I haven't found it yet.**

*She was the daughter of his brother Robert Warren (1783-1851). Delilah and her husband Nathaniel G Breedlove had seven children, three sons and four daughters.

**Usually the inventory happens not long after probate is given but there's no trace of William's in the subsequent 200 pages.